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Origin of douglas Total Records: 2  Origin of douglas, Meaning of douglas Origin: While the Douglas family is found in Pennsylvania at a much earlier date, the first settlement in this branch in Pennsylvania was made by William Douglas, born in Scotland, February 5, 1769. He sprang from the famous Clan Douglas famed in story and song and probably the greatest of all Scottish clans. Volumes have been written concerning the doing of eminent members of the family and a history of Scotland could not be written were the name Douglas omitted. Although traced to the twelfth century, the origin of the heroic race has not been found and what was boasted of them by their historian of two centuries ago is still true: 'We do not know them in the fountain, but in the stream: not in the root but in the stem: for we know not who was the first man that did by his virtue raise himself above the Vulgar.' Another says: 'So many, so good as of Douglas blood have been of one surname, in one Kinguck never yet were seen.' 'Burke's Heraldry' gives as the paternal arms of! the name of Douglas: 'Argent a man's heart gules ensigned with an imperial crown proper; on a chief azure three stars of the first,' which translated means upon a field of silver a man's heart red, beneath an imperial crown in its proper colors; upon the dividing line upoHistory of West Virginia Surnames: Douglas, Douglass Submitted by: History of West Virginia Origin of douglas, Meaning of douglas Origin: Douglas Scottish origin means dark water from the gaelic word "dubhglas" Celtic origin means dwell by the dark stream Anglo-Saxon origin means dweller by the dark stream English origin means dark water Irish origin means dark stranger Surnames: Douglas Submitted by: glitz 11/9/2009 7:34 AM Page 1 of 1

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